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Recommended Reading: The life and death of 'The Colbert Report'

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Thursday night's episode marked the end of a nine-year run for the The Colbert Report. Don't worry though, the show's namesake is taking over for David Letterman in 2015, but until then, take a look back at what made Stephen Colbert's overly conservative hijinks so darn compelling. As Bloomberg's Will Leitch puts it, "The politics were (sometimes, though less and less as the show aged) the canvas, but the comedy was always the paint."

Frog's creative chief makes a case not only for companies giving away their wearable devices, but also for paying users for the data they collect. A failure to do so, he argues, could prevent widespread adoption from ever taking root.